Help with linking external drive, through NAS to Plex

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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My Plex server is on my Synology NAS and all my movies are loaded on it. But I have an external Western Digital drive that has all music that I would like to add to Plex. The external drive is connected with a network cable to a switch and that is then connected to my router. Plex only see’s my NAS so I tried adding the path the the external drive (\MYBOOKLIVE\Public\Shared Music), but after Plex adds it nothing shows up. I have been scratching my head on this for awhile and looking online but still have not found an answer. I cannot connect the external drive directly to the NAS since its an older drive that only has a network connection, no USB, etc.

Please advise, and thanks!!

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So do I add it as NFS or the other choice?

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Ok will try it. Thanks for the help and might have to ping you again if I hit a snag

Jon Rousseaux

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I replied to your other User Topic here

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Do use the actual IP address like this? /192.168.1.6/Public/Shared Music

Or like this? \MYBOOKLIVE\Public\Shared Music

Also if I do CFIS its asking for an Account Name and Password. I dont have one on the WD drive (only to log into the admin settings of the actual drive…not to any folders on the drive). When I leave the Account Name and Password blank it says “Failed to connect to the remote folder. Please make sure the remote folder is accessible via CFIS protocol” What Account Name and Password is this asking for???

If I do NFS, following the info I put in 192.168.1.6:\Public\Shared Music, I leave v3 and TCP alone, the Mount is automatically populated and I get this error: “Connection failed. Please make sure the remote server is accessible via NFS”

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Yeah thats exactly what I’m doing but its not connecting. I even changed the password on the WD and still giving me the error

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I’m pretty sure I have it shared. I’m logged into the admin for the WD and under Shared, I can see the Public folder which the Music folder lives. Other than that, not sure what else to do or to look

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How would I give Synology permission to read the folder on the drive? Maybe that is what is going on

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Make sure this is Enabled SMBv1 in Windows

Here’s how to turn on or off optional features on Windows 10 using Control Panel:

Open Control Panel.
Click on Programs.

Click the Turn Windows features on or off link

and make sure this is enabled
SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support: Adds support to configure file and printer sharing for previous versions of the OS, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 R2.
SMB Direct: Allows the use of network adapters with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capability to improve file sharing support using SMB 3.x.
protocol isn’t secure, and you shouldn’t use it outside of your network.

Here is more info

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All of the following were already on:
SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support
SMB 1.0/CIFS Automatic Removal
SMB 1.0/CIFS Client
SMB 1.0/CIFS Server

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